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Editorial 3

I N T E R N A T I O N A LDPLAInauguration of the DPLA.DIGIBÍS introduces its app 4RegulationRDA: Year 1 4EuropeanaThird year of ENUMERATE 6

L I B R A R I E SProprietary developmentsDigital Library of the Royal Academy of Medicine 7DIGIBIB 8: New features 8Presentation of the Virtual Library of the Old School of Translators of Toledo 10Advanced digitisation at the Bank of Spain 12Information system in theNational Nuclear Energy Council 12

E V E N T SPresentationse-Health as a key action of the Digital Agenda For Europe 13DIGIBÍS at the Third Documentation Seminar 14Digital Humanities: challenges, achievements and future prospects 15NewsEl Greco 2014. DIGIBÍS Consulting 16

SUMARY

DIGICLICDIGIBÍS® Newsletter

Managing DirectorTachi Hernando de Larramendi

Project Director Xavier Agenjo Bullón

Finance DirectorNuria Ruano Penas

IT Dept. DirectorJesús L. Domínguez Muriel

Art DirectorAntonio Otiñano Martínez

Sales DirectorJavier Mas García

Technology CoordinatorFrancisca Hernández Carrascal

AdministrationMaría Luz Ruiz Rodríguez (coord.)José María Alcega Barroeta

IT DepartmentAndrés Viedma Peláez (coord.)Feli Matarranz de Antonio (coord.)Andrés Felipe Botero Zapata

Julio Diago GarcíaMercedes Marcos SantosAndrés Moreno GarcíaRafael Roldán TejedorFernando Román Ortega

Innovation Department Paulo César Juanes Hernández (coord.)

Noemí Barbero UrbanoMaría Isabel Campillejo SuárezSusana Hernández RubioMontserrat Martínez Guerra

Digitisation Department Francisco Viso Parra (coord.)María José Escuté SerranoÁlvaro Hernáez Ríos

Amando Martínez CatalánJavier Ramos Altamira

Documentation DepartmentIsabel Martín Tirado

Beatriz Pascual FernándezAlicia Varela Villafranca

Luis Fernando Méndez Prado

Sales DepartmentJosé María Tijerín Gómez

Coordination with the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation

Patricia Juez García

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EDITORIAL

O ver the last few years, the proliferation of OAI repositories has madeit more necessary than ever, almost essential, to have OAI har-vesters or aggregators for the metadata that continue to be entered

into these OAI repositories so they can be accessed simultaneously. It is ob -vious that Europeana is an example of this metadata aggregation process, anexample that the Digital Public Library of America has responded to by quick-ly beginning to add many records aggregated using the same procedures andusing the same metadata profiles, i.e., the Europeana Data Model.

The Hispana example

In Spain, the situation has also adjusted to this model very closely and itrepresents one of the greatest success stories when it comes to coopera-tion between libraries, especially in a digital environment. Museums andarchives have also joined in, though to a lesser extent. Hispana is an OAI

aggregator that bases metadata harvesting on theOAI-PMH protocol and for which the figures on har-vested digital objects, which are enormously large,correspond to over 200 OAI repositories. Further -more, Hispana is capable of harvesting not only therequired Dublin Core, as specified in the OAI-PMHprotocol, but also about thirty different types ofmetadata, among which we can highlight the afore-

mentioned Europeana Data Model due to its potential to be aggregated byEuropeana.

The DIGIHUB software

Tachi Hernando de Larramendi, managing director at DIGIBÍS, has driventhe creation of a fast and powerful software called DIGIHUB –the combinationof an OAI repository and an OAI harvester, an SRU server and a directory ofcollections and digitisation projects–, which serves as a basis for Hispana. Thesoftware also allows for the use of different applications: from the EuropeanaAPI to its transformation into Linked Open Data, for which it has been essen-tial to link it with other value vocabularies such as the Skosified Lista deEncabezamientos de Materia (LEM). The Polymath Virtual Library also uses aversion of DIGIHUB for aggregation and reuse of records coming fromEuropeana and their incorporation into its own OAI repository where they arelater transformed into MARC 21/RDA records in a semi-automated fashion.

DIGIHUB, data aggregation developed by DIGIBíS

Metadata aggregationis a success story,

as shown by Hispanaand Europeana

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DPLA

INTERNATIONAL Inauguration of the DPLA.

DIGIBÍS introduces its app

A s scheduled, on 18 April 2013, the web-site of the Digital Public Library ofAmerica (DPLA) was published. The

planned inauguration could not be held since, justthree days before the event and during the BostonMarathon attack, there was an attack in front ofthe Boston Public Library, where the new digitallibrary has been installed and, obviously, theinau guration had to be postponed. However, the website of the DPLA could be ac-

cessed from the date planned, showing, rightfrom the start, the application developed by DI-GIBÍS that allows for the joint consultation of theDPLA and Europeana through simultaneous man-agement of their respective APIs.

Spain Brand

The characteristics of this app, represented bya butterfly as a reference to the “butterfly effect”(as it shows that an app created in Claudio Coellostreet in Madrid can have repercussions in Euro -ean countries and in the United States of Ame -rica), have made the Spain Brand to deem itappropriate to include it in its project portfolio,which was shown on the website of the appthrough the use of the corresponding logo.

One of the essential aspects of the DPLA is itsMetadata Application Profile (MAP) which, at themoment of publication of the DPLA on the web-site, is at version 3. Another fundamental aspect

is the reuse of OAI-ORE as well as qualifiedDublin Core and, especially, of the EuropeanaData Model, which is the truly essential aspect. Without a doubt, this choice –already announ -

ced at the technical meeting of Europeana men-tioned in DIGICLIC 8– will greatly promote intero -perability of both digital libraries within a LinkedOpen Data environment.

Joint work with Europeana

Europeana has not only represented one of thebasic models regarding the structure of informa-tion in the DPLA but all sorts of joint committeeshave also been set up to study the problemsstemming from the management of digitalobjects in archives, libraries and museumssimultaneously.The advantage of Europeana, measured in

terms of time, serves as a model to the DPLA, ascan be seen in rights management or setting upvirtual exhibits. Without a doubt, in the next fewyears or even in the next few months, a greaternumber of equivalent initiatives will be seen in lightof the similarity of the data structures and, aboveall, of the bibliographical, archival and museologi-cal goals of both projects.

The DIGIBÍS App shows the analogy

between both digital libraries

The DIGIBÍS app and consultation of the DPLA and Europeana.


REGULATION

INTERNATIONAL

RDA: Year 1

O n 31 March 2013, according to fore-casts, the three largest national li-braries in the United States as well as a

significant group of American, European and Aus-tralasian national libraries, started using RDAcataloguing. As mentioned in DIGICLIC 8, a significant num-

ber of fields and sub-fields was defined and re-defined so that the cataloguing rules esta blishedby RDA could be codified more appropriately. Theentry into production of RDA marked the begin-ning of a truly significant change in pa radigms forlibraries around the world as the ca taloguing

were codes based on AACR2, which had repre-sented an international reference, were finallybeing replaced in successive initiation phases.The same thing happened in Spain whereCataloguing Rules were not exactly compliantwith AACR2, even though they did not leaveSpanish cataloguing tradition behind, especiallyto avoid disrupting the catalogues with the imple-mentation of access points that were very diffe -rent in their structure and format. Soon, automat-ic cataloguing in the National Library using theAriadna integrated system with the retrospectivereconversion processes completely transformedthat approach.

MARC21 Format Adaptation.

As mentioned, for RDA cataloguing to be feasi-ble within an automated system, it is essential for

the MARC21 format, that allows for data encodingcompliant with RDA, to be adapted to these newrules.This is how it was done and, indeed, subse-

quent versions of the MARC21 format have beenadvancing on this path. Continously, the DIGIBIBsoftware has made the effort of implementing allchanges in each new version of MARC21, whichhas made it possible to catalogue according toRDA at all times. A clear example of this situationcan be seen in the authority records of thePolymath Virtual Library, especially records that

correspond to the person and not to the personna mes, in this case Polymaths.

MARBI Cancellation.

In the MARBI meeting in June 2013, anotherimportant event that also represents a milestonein cataloguing took place: the cancellation ofMARBI itself (even though this was publicly dis-closed later) to be substituted by the MARCAdvisory Committee (MAC) that would take carenot only of maintaining the MARC21 format butalso of following up on the BIBFRAME pro ject. In short, this is a huge change in cataloguing

realities and prospects for all libraries in theworld.

The RDA begins a change

in the paradigm of automated cataloguing

Blog about the progress of RDA.


EUROPEANA

INTERNATIONAL

T hroughout the first half of 2013, the ENU-MERATE team benefited from the collabo-ration of over 50 experts in different fields

of cultural heritage connected to ministries ofculture, memory institutions, universities andcreative companies. Their goal was to establish amethodology that would refine how to measureand how to better understand the cost of digitisa-tion, as well as access and use of digital collec-tions. In fact, in April 2013, national coordinators

played an important role in establishing themethodology to analyse not only the aspects thatwere just mentioned but also the size of digitalcollections and the cost of digitisation.

Preparation of the Second General Survey

During the first half of the year, the secondgeneral survey has been under development ingreat detail in order to be able to compare theresults of the first survey more precisely. To dothis, the questions have been revised and a largernumber of participating institutions has beensought.There are results that can be studied already,

related to the four central questions of the pro -ject:• The size of the digital collections

• The cost of digitisation• Access and use of digital collections• Digital preservation This last aspect was excluded from the themed

survey as it was decided that it should be coveredby a specific questionnaire. Probably, at this stageof the project, which is perhaps too complex, it

would have been premature and inefficient toaddress it.Thanks to the analysis of responses, it has

been possible to prepare a second, much moreprecise questionnaire that is intended to beimplemented in the second quarter of 2013.These themed surveys can be accessed at theproject’s website (http://enumeratedataplatform.digibis.com/) and be reused and rea nalysed, asthey have been published according to CCO 1.0(Public Domain Dedication).

Third meeting of the consortium: in Austria

The third meeting of all members of the ENU-MERATE consortium is expected to take place inJuly 2013 at the National Library of Austria, withthe purpose of analysing all aspects related to theinformation gathered thus far, as well as toreview the responses and data obtained at diffe -rent presentations, events and technical meet-ings held over the past few months. Among them,we can perhaps highlight the one that took placeon 12 April in London, at the GLAM Wiki 2013Conference, where Nick Poole presented the re -sults of the project thus far.

Third year of ENUMERATE

Website of the comparison tool developed by DIGIBÍS that allows for the real-time analysis of the results of all surveys according to different criteria.

The second general survey is already being prepared


PROPIETARYDEVELOPMENTS

LIBRARIES

T he Real Academia Nacional de Medicina,founded on 28 April 1881, has an extraordi-nary bibliographic collection. In the first

half of 2013, they decided to create a digital li-brary and decided to count on DIGIBÍS for the im-plementation of the DIGIBIB software as well asfor digitisation of the bibliographic materials. It also had the support of the Ministry of Edu-

cation, Culture and Sport to develop OAI-PMHrepositories that could contribute to Hispana andEuropeana.

DIGIBÍS also implemented version 7.0 of its DI -GIBIB software and proceeded to digitise the ma -terials specified, totalling 23,957 multimedia ob -jects. The oldest printed book dates back 1850 and

the oldest manuscript dates back to 1738. Asother DIGIBÍS implementations, it features anOAI-PMH repository adapted to the EuropeanaData Model version 5.2.4 and supports LinkedOpen Data technologies. It identifies resourcesusing URIs and allows for content negotiation sothat the resources can be accessed in differentrepresentations, including the Europeana DataModel in RDF.

Visibility in Hispana, OAIster, and Europeana

By having these features and subsystems, thelibrary was harvested by Hispana and, through it,by Europeana, where this collection of assets can

be accessed. Furthermore, it was then harvestedby OAIster and, therefore, become part of theWorldCat. It should be noted that the bibliographic

records can be exported in a very wide set ofmetadata schemas, as well as in BibTex and inSWAP (by JISC) to make it easier to be reused bymanagers of bibliographic citations. The entire process entailed an approximate

workload of six months from the awarding of theproject to the harvesting of metadata by Hispanaand OAIster, thereby showing the capacity ofDIGIBÍS to perform all the processes involved inthe creation of a virtual library in an integratedfashion, from the digitisation and generation ofdigital objects as well as the assignment of meta-data to harvesting by third parties from its OAIrepository.Naturally, the website of the Real Academia

features excellent SEO due to the sitemaps andmetadata used.

Real Academia Nacional de Medicina Digital Library

BIBFRAME: short for de Bibliographical

Framework Transition Initiative

Home page of the Digital Library of the National Royal Academy of Medicine.


I n the 5th issue of DIGICLIC, we spoke of thenew modules and developments that TachiHernando de Larramendi, managing director

of DIGIBÍS, decided to incorporate into DIGIBIB 7.0.Generally and annually, new versions of DIGIBIBalways incorporate the latest update of the MARC21 format but there are also many other features,sometimes requested by customers and some-times born of the design of the IT and innovationteams at DIGIBÍS. Furthermore, version 8.0, re-leased in 2013, includes some particularly impor-tant features.

Full use of the RDA and MARC 21 standards

All the new fields defined in the MARC21 for-mat for use in the RDA (e.g., 37 X) are visible andbrowsable in all DIGIBIB display formats.The import of bibliographic and authority

records in MARC XML is facilitated. As catalo -guers and metadata specialists know, the publi -shing of MARC records and, especially, batchmodifications prior to integration become mucheasier if they are made on XML records. Forinstance, importing authority records from VIAFrequires very few steps with this feature andoffers the advantage of importing very completerecords, including the URIs and identifiers (e.g.:ISNI) that VIAF adds to all its resources.Batch import of authority records from exter-

nal sources also required greater control over theprocesses of data substitution and merging.DIGIBIB 8.0 users can choose to prioritise existingauthority records in their databases or those theywish to import. Thus, an existing record can becompletely substituted or only fields that do notconflict with the existing record can be updated.In this way, the batch import of authority recordscan affect both records that already exist in thedatabase and new ones. In the multimedia object group management

module, a feature has been added to search forgroups lacking a representative image. The rep-

resentative image is associated to each biblio-graphical record and is presented as a thumbnailthat can be clicked to access the complete digitalobject.

Improvements in the Web search module

A series of improvements have been includedin the Web search module, some of them aimed atimproving the performance of the search enginein balanced engines or at facilitating the process-es to generate indexes and other improvementsthat are much more visible to users. Among themost important ones, we can mention the possi-


LIBRARIES DIGIBIB 8: New features

The semantic enrichmentof persons and entities

complies with therequirements of RDA,codified in MARC 21

RDA Information about the person (not about the name of the person) coded in MARC 21 format.

bility of generating a PDF file upon request fromthe user in order to facilitate downloading andprinting multi-page objects or the offering thepossibility of searching by sections (groups of do -cuments by subject or type of document) in theadvanced search.

Integration with Google Analytics

As highlighted in the project developed byENUMERATE, one of the crucial aspects in themanagement of digital libraries and the evalua-tion of their impact on users is that of access sta-tistics for digital objects and their monitoring. DIGIBIB version 8.0 incorporates, in addition to

DIGIBIB’s own statistics, Google Analytics inte-gration. In this way, it is possible to record sear -

ches performed in a catalogue and obtain a reportof these searches. Also, each access to a group ofdigital or multimedia objects that takes place onthe website is recorded.

Persistent links and QR codes

Another one of the innovations incorporatedinto DIGIBIB 8.0 refers to the use of QR-Codes todisplay persistent links and for these links to alsobe available in the thumbnails and representati -ve images of digital objects. Persistent links are

even more necessary in the Linked Open Data en -vironment.DIGIBIB 7.0 already supported Linked Open

Data technology and the Europeana Data Model5.2.2 but, in 2013, two new versions of the EDMwere drafted, 5.2.4, which represented a funda-mental change from the previous version as it didnot require the use of proxies, and 5.2.4, publi -shed in late July 2013. DIGIBÍS decided to incorporate these changes

in version 8.0 because, even though they mayentail a certain slowdown in the implementationof the new versions, it was worthwhile to includesuch important changes. This temporary extension also allowed for the

incorporation of DIGIBIB 8.0 to update number 16of MARC 21 of 21 April 2013.



LIBRARIES

The Europeana DataModel is the Europeanimplementation of LinkedOpen Data and the DPLAreuses it as one of its

space names

Semantic enrichment of a record with external sources: DBpedia, VIAF, FAST and LOD National Libraries.


T he presentation of the Virtual Library of theOld School of Translators of Toledo tookplace on 28 May 2013 at 19.00 at the Real

Fundación de Toledo. This project featured the col-laboration of the Fundación MAPFRE and the Fun-dación Ignacio Larramendi, which, on this occa-sion, were joined by the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha with the purpose of having the currentSchool of Translators of Toledo participate in thedevelopment of this library. The presentation was delivered by Fernando

Ledesma, chairman of the Board of Trustees ofthe Real Fundación de Toledo; Miguel ÁngelCollado Yurita, rector of the Universidad deCastilla-La Mancha; Javier Morales, GeneralDirector of Culture of the Communidad deCastilla-La Mancha; Xavier Agenjo Bullón, ProjectManager of the Fundación Ignacio Larramendi;José Luis Bue ren Gómez-Acebo of the BibliotecaNacional de España, participating on behalf ofEuropeana, Luis Her nando de Larramendi, execu-tive vice-president of the Fundación IgnacioLarramendi; and Alberto Manzano Marcos, chair-man of the Fundación MAPFRE.The Virtual Library, located on the FIL website

(http://www.larramendi.es) and, once again, su -pported by DIGIBÍS technology and design as wellas, due to her special interest in matters related tothe preservation of cultural heritage, by its manag-ing director Tachi Hernando de Larra men di. It holdsover 1,500 manuscripts and old printed materialsfrom libraries all over Europe, a clear sign of theimportance of Toledo’s role as cultural crossroadsduring the 12TH and 13TH centuries, not only for thetransfer of science and thought from Greece andRome but also from Persia, India and even theIslamic culture of the East and of Al-Andalus itself.

Direct access to ancient manuscripts and printed materials

Works and translations of this complex cultu ralphenomenon are often cited but this is rarely done

on a first-hand basis, especially due to the disper-sion that can now be overcome by information andcommunication technology. In fact, the 29 milliondigital objects of Europeana are reused in thisLibrary, through DIGIBÍS’ own developments thatmake it possible for records that are retrievedfrom the European database to be integrated intothe MARC repository of the Larramendi VirtualLibrary. Once there, they are re-catalogued, espe-

cially with very rich MARC21/RDA authorityrecords used by the micro-sites of this library. Furthermore, these authority records are

hyperlinked, using URIs, to value vocabulariessuch as VIAF, DBpedia, FAST, the authorityrecords of the National Library and, especially andin particular, the 37X fields of the authorityrecords through links to the Skosified Lista deEncabec.


LIBRARIES Presentation of the Virtual Library of the Old School of Translators of Toledo

Translators and commentators aretreated as “persons”

with enriched authority records


Presentation of the Virtual Library of the Old School of Translators of Toledo


Since the Europeana API runs every time thedatabase is queried, the reader handling the mi -crosite of the Old School of Translators of Toledocan obtain an increasingly large number of re -cords as new materials from different dataproviders are incorporated into Europeana. Thisguarantees the constant update of the informa-tion, as well as an increase in the number ofrecords that can be retrieved. The Virtual Library is divided into three sec-

tions. The Raymond period, driven by Raymond ofToledo; the Transition Period, promoted byRodrigo Jiménez de Rada; and a third period dri -ven by Alfonso X the Wise. Translators and com-mentators translated and commented on fiftyauthors from the different cultural fields men-tioned and drafted their own works, among which

we can highlight that of Domingo Gundisalvo,which contains has a magnificent study, commi -ssioned by the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation–following the methodology of these virtuallibraries– to Nicola Polloni: “Domingo Gundisalvo,translator and philosopher”, which can be acce -ssed from the microsite in different formats (PDF,EPUB and MOBI).

Preliminary texts

The introduction, “The School of Translators ofToledo, RDA and the Europeana Data Model”,written by the Project Director of the IgnacioLarramendi Foundation and Patricia Juez, is areview of the cultural phenomenon of Toledo andits historical-critical interpretations in the lasttwo centuries, as well as a technological review ofthe data model used in the microsite and its fea-tures in terms of both library science and IT. There is also a “Note on the digital edition of

the Virtual Library of the Old School of Trans -lators of Toledo” which, among other things,deals with a central issue that Europeana anddigital libraries in general have to face: the differ-ences between the date of creation of a digitalobject and the date found in the printed footer orin the incipit or explicit of the manuscript, whichrepresents quite a significant problem.

LIBRARIES

From left to right: José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo of the National Library of Spain, intervening on behalf of Europeana; Alberto Manzano Marcos, Chairman of the MAPFRE Foundation; Javier Morales, general director of Culture of the Community of Castilla-La Mancha; Fernando Ledesma, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Foundation of Toledo; Luis Hernando de Larramendi, Executive Vice-President of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation; Miguel Ángel Collado Yurita, Rector of the University of Castilla-La Mancha; Xavier Agenjo Bullón, Project Director of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation.



LIBRARIES

O ne of the characteristics of the DIGIBÍScompany is its versatility. This is a compa-

ny capable of adapting to any type of environmentand of working with any type of documentation. In the case of the Banco de España, the digiti-

sation of which was awarded to DIGIBÍS through apublic tender, one of the most important condi-tions that were required was complete security.Therefore, DIGIBÍS set up completely autonomousequi pment capable of working offline, with noconnection with the central offices whatsoever, inan area specified by the Banco de España. Thesoftware application that was chosen for the con-sultation of materials was DIGIARCH WEB, with

the idea that it could be made available throughthe In tra net in the future.

Digitisation and confidentiality

Minutes of governance bodies dating back to2006 were digitised. For their great historicalimportance and the attention that this institutionpays to preservation in the long term, the Bancode España decided that image resolution shouldbe 600 dpi, which is only possible through the use the most modern scanners. In fact, this is one of thefew projects of its kind carried out in Spain. The work included identification of the docu-

mentary units and capturing metadata aboutthem, in addition to a customised development

that DIGIBÍS had to create to be able to dump partof the digitised information into the Corporate Do -cument Manager.The DIGIARCH WEB software is perfectly

adapted to consultation and manages informationaccording to the ISAD (G) and ISAAR (CPF) stan-dards, as well as Encoded Archival Descriptionend Encoded Archival Context.

Advanced digitisation at the Banco de España

Database of Books of Governing Bodies of the Banco de España.

Because of their confidentiality, the

project is characterizedby its management over the Intranet Information system in the

Consejo Nacional de Energía Nuclear

A s is the case for other institutions thathandle documentation for internal use,

the Consejo Nacional de Energía Nuclear had adocumentary manager that did not take advan-tage of advancements in new informationstructures based on MARC21 and RDA. In this case, the implementation process for

the new information system was based on ma p -ping the information into DIGIBIB which, aswas done for the Banco de España, had to workvia Intranet only.With the new system, the Consejo can esta -

blish links in Linked Data environments, as thistechnology does not necessarily entail that di -gital objects and resources need to be open.


PRESENTATIONS

EVENTS

O n many occasions, people have insistedthat Europeana represents Action Keynumber 15 in the Digital Agenda for

Europe as well as that this Agenda includes allkinds of initiatives connected by the application ofInformation and Communication Technologies incivil society. DIGICLIC 6 already reported efforts related to

eJustice, another one of the key actions in the Di -gital Agenda, when DIGIBÍS addressed the de -partment for digital edition of the publications ofthe Consejo General del Poder Judicial.On this occasion, DIGIBÍS and the Fundación

Ignacio Larramendi presented the eHealth pa no -rama, also considered a key action in theEuropean Union, during the seminar “Partici pa -tion of Civil Society: the role of foundations in theHealth Sector”, organised by the Spanish Asso -ciation of Foundations on 27 February 2013 inMadrid, at the Conference Hall of the FundaciónMAPFRE. Xavier Agenjo, as pro -

ject manager, participa -ted on behalf of the Fun -dación Ig nacio Larra-men di, which presentedeHealth, an initiative pro-moted by the Council ofEurope, during a lecturetitled “eHealth as a keyaction in the Digital Agen -da for Europe 2020”.

Europeana, eJusticeand eHealth, key actions of theDigital Agenda

Due to the specialisa-tion of the Fundación Ig -nacio Larra mendi and

DIGIBÍS, emphasis was made on all aspects rela -ted to the processing of biomedical informationand documentation, as well as the standards andstandardised structures that these must follow sothat reusing and exchanging information caneffectively promote scientific research, clinicaloperations and citizens directly.

eHealth as a key action in the Digital Agenda for Europe

From left to right: Fernando Bandrés, director of the Advanced Studies Classroom of the Tejerina Foundation; Filomeno Mira, Chairman of the Prevention, Health and

Environmental Institute of the MAPFRE Foundation; María Artola, managing director of the Autonomous University of Madrid Foundation; Carmen Hernando de

Larramendi, patron of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation; Javier Nadal, chairman of the Spanish Foundation Association and executive vice-president

of the Telefónica Foundation; Honorio Carlos Bando, vice-chairman of Fundadeps and corresponding scholar at the National Royal Academy of Pharmacy;

and Silverio Agea, general director of the Spanish Foundation Association.


T he Spanish Federation of Librarians andDocumentalists (FESABID) held its XIII Spa -nish Documentation Days, which took pla -

ce in Toledo on 24 and 25 May 2013. DIGIBÍS participated in this Seminar as well as

in DOCUMAT, the professional expo organised inthe Arms Factory Technological Campus of theUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha, with a standfeaturing information about digital managementsoftware for libraries, archives and museums, aswell as advanced digitisation processes.

Participation in the round table

DIGIBÍS also participated in the round tabletitled: “Building balances: access and intellectualproperty”, which dealt with the application of Lin -ked Open Data in virtual libraries.

Even though the title of the round table wasslightly ambiguous, all presentations were rela -ted to Linked Open Data (LOD).DIGIBÍS actively participates in the activities of

professional associations of librarians, archi -vists, documentalists and curators by being sys-tematically present at expos and technical semi-nars, not only with stands but with different typesof participation related to the development of thedifferent projects it carries out, as well as withthe use of these developments in the rest of theindustry. The activities that took place on 24 and 25 May

during the XIII Spanish Documentation Days,

which can be seen at the FESABID website(www.fesabid.org) showcase this strategy set outby the Managing Director, Tachi Hernando de La -rramendi.

PRESENTATIONS

EVENTS

DIGIBÍS presented itslatest developments inVirtual Libraries andLinked Open Data

DIGIBÍS at the XIII FesabidDocumentation Days

One of the posters presented by DIGIBÍS at the Conference. It informs people about

the app it has developed to access the DPLA and Europeana at the same time. You can read more about this topic on page 4.

DIGIBÍS, development partner of SEDIC

DIGIBÍS is also a development partner ofSEDIC and also raises awareness about thistype of activities and others in the associa-tion’s e-newsletter, in addition to doing so inthis newsletter and through the website web-site (www.digibis.com), where you can down-load this publication, DIGICLIC, in PDF format,free of charge.

D igital Humanities are areas of knowled -ge that have been greatly developed overthe last few years. It is obvious that in-

formation and communication technologies havehad a very important ap-plication in multiple tasksand, of course, this wouldalso have to be true in afield as interrelated asthat of archives, librariesand museums. In the same way that

Digital Humanities havealways had a close rela-tionship with traditionalar chives, libraries and mu - seums, and will continueto do so, new virtual ordigital libraries, archivesand museums representa magnificent data bankfor them.

DIGIBÍS’ extensive experience in this field

DIGIBÍS has extensive experience in this fieldand made an very significant contribution in theproject of the Complete Works by Ortega y Ga -sset, which benefited from development, perhapspioneering in Spain, summarised by the publi -shers as follows:

“This edition could be completed thanks totechnological tools that are not usually usedin a project of this magnitude. A significantportion of this has been the contribution ofDIGIBÍS, with Tachi Hernando de Larra men -di and Jesús Domínguez, as well as the ad -vice of Xavier Agenjo Bullón, from the Ig -nacio Larramendi Foundation.” O.C., vol. X,p. 1270.

With this and further experience, DIGIBÍS wasinvited to present a paper at the Conference“Digital Humanities: challenges, achievementsand future prospects”, which took place at the

University of la Coruña on9 to 12 July 2013. The pa -per, drafted by XavierAgenjo and Francisca Her -nández, aroused consi -derable interest.

Billions of pagesprocessed with OCR

The fundamental basis,the driving idea, is that,following systematic opti-cal character recognition(OCR) according to thestandard defined in theALTO schema, digital hu -

ma nists already have an enormous amount ofinformation they can use to work with tools andapplications such as the ones developed byDIGIBÍS for this purpose.If the figures of tens of millions of digital objects

corresponding to all types of printed materials,manuscripts, archival materials, etc., which areimpossible to measure in terms of their number ofpages, not to mention their number of words andcharacters, are taken into account, we clearly findourselves dealing with Big Data and it becomesclear that it is impossible not to take the jointfuture of Digital Humanities and the advanceddigitisation of archives, libraries and museumsvery much into account. If this undoubted reality isreflected in the Linked Open Data environment, anunquestionable reality arises. The paper can beaccessed in the “Articles, papers and presenta-tions” section of the DIGIBÍS website.


Virtual Libraries arethe great text repository for

digital humanities

Digital Humanities: challenges, achievements and future prospects

PRESENTATIONS

EVENTS


EL TÍTULOEN VERSALITAS

I n the 8th issue of DIGICLIC, we mentioned twocircumstances that allowed for the DIGIMUSapplication to be completely rewritten. We

mentioned that it had begun due to a grant from theMinistry of Education, Culture and Sport to developsoftware for the international dissemination ofSpanish Cultural Heritage, and we also mentionedthat DIGIBÍS had been hired to draft a consultancyreport about the creation of an informational sys-tem that could serve as support and ga ther all ex-isting information about el Greco on the occasion ofthe commemoration of his centennial.

Both tasks have been completed and softwareis already available, with a structure based onLIDO and EDM, which has an OAI-PMH repositoryand a wide range of features that allow for inte -raction with the virtual representation of museuminformation.

An innovative and very functional application

Under the guidance of Tachi Larramendi, ma -naging director at DIGIBÍS, the software has beendeveloped in a responsive fashion, so it can beaccessed from desktops, laptops, tablets andsmartphones all over the world, which is why it isalso multilingual, supports multiple alphabets(UNICODE), and includes a useful and very visualtimeline that allows users to explore and display

the works of the artist throughout the years aswell as explore his artistic evolution. The DIGIMUS 2.0 software allows users to

access a selection of works and written biogra-phies of artists, establishing semantic links tosources such as VIAF, DBpedia and Wikipedia andallows for developing an event timeline thatdescribes the source and transmission of theseworks. The use of events, as specified in LIDO, proves

extraordinarily useful in defining the conceptualrelationships between each of the works and theirphysical journey through different locations overtime.DIGIMUS is a very visual and functional appli-

cation for the management of works of art, idealfor museums and temporary exhibits on theinternet.

NEWS

El Greco 2014. DIGIBÍS Consulting

EVENTS

Prototype homepage of the DIGIMUS application, prepared on the occasion of commemorating the fourth

centennial of his death after the consultancy report DIGIBÍS was requested for the Fundación El Greco.

DIGIMUS uses OAI-PMH technology and LIDO and EDM

standards

DIGICLIC IN ENGLISH

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